HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/1/18

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 12/1/18

Each week on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 12/1/18. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART

CHART

ARTIST

SONG TITLE

RADIO

POSITION

POSITION

SPINS

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

1

1

SHINEDOWN

“GET UP”

1930

2

2

DISTURBED

“Are You Ready”

1836

3

3

BAD WOLVES (f. DIAMANTE)

“Hear Me Now”

1773

4

4

GODSMACK

“When Legends Rise”

1600

5

5

THE GLORIOUS SONS

“S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)”

1456

6

8

PAPA ROACH

“Who Do You Trust?”

1293

7

7

GHOST

“Dance Macabre”

1293

8

9

BRING ME THE HORIZON

“MANTRA”

1208

9

11

AVENGED SEVENFOLD

“Mad Hatter”

1036

10

12

BEARTOOTH

“Disease”

972

11

13

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH

“When The Seasons Change”

944

12

6

GRETA VAN FLEET

“When The Curtain Falls”

906

13

14

RIVAL SONS

“Do Your Worst”

802

14

15

FROM ASHES TO NEW

“Broken”

732

15

17

HALESTORM

“Do Not Disturb”

700

16

10

SLASH F/MYLES KENNEDY

“Driving Rain”

675

17

16

UNDEROATH

“ihateit”

658

18

19

SLIPKNOT

“All Out Life”

581

19

18

JONATHAN DAVIS

“Basic Needs”

524

20

20

FEVER 333

“Made An America”

520

21

22

POP EVIL

“Be Legendary”

500

22

25

THREE DAYS GRACE

“Right Left Wrong”

485

23

23

ATREYU

“The Time Is Now”

469

24

24

THE BLUE STONES

“Black Holes (Solid Ground)”

390

25

26

MUSE

“Pressure”

370

26

27

A PERFECT CIRCLE

“So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish”

329

27

21

IMAGINE DRAGONS

“Natural”

325

28

28

CHEVELLE

“Sleep Walking Elite”

324

29

30

HYRO THE HERO

“Bullet”

320

30

29

P.O.D.

“Listening for The Silence”

305

31

41

GRETA VAN FLEET

“You’re The One”

273

32

31

THE DIRTY NIL

“That’s What Heaven Feels Like”

261

33

46

DIAMANTE

“Haunted”

196

34

35

MESSER

“Save Myself”

193

35

34

BLACK MOODS

“Bella Donna”

190

36

37

DOROTHY

“Who Do You Love”

182

37

32

PRETTY VICIOUS

“Move”

173

38

38

TWENTY ONE PILOTS

“Jumpsuit”

143

39

39

MEMPHIS MAY FIRE

“The Old Me”

139

40

40

ROYAL TUSK

“Aftermath”

131

41

42

TWENTY ONE PILOTS

“My Blood”

122

42

44

DOSE

“Vervain”

108

43

45

PALAYE ROYALE

“You’ll Be Fine”

97

44

43

BASEMENT

“Disconnect”

96

45

50

ROYAL BLISS

“Hard And Loud”

93

46

47

ICE NINE KILLS

“A Grave Mistake”

89

47

48

STONE HORSES

“End Of The World”

86

48

49

HANDS LIKE HOUSES

“Monster”

75

49

53

LIGHT THE TORCH

“The Safety Of Disbelief”

68

50

52

SMASHING PUMPKINS

“Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)”

64

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)

METALLICA – “Halo On Fire”

It’s somewhat surprising to see an album these days that can produce numerous songs that get meaningful airplay. Six is unheard of, especially when the sixth song is over eight minutes long. Of course, when you’re Metallica (arguably the biggest rock band in the world), it becomes a bit less surprising. Even though Hardwired…To Self-Destruct just celebrated the two-year anniversary of its release, strong albums like this have a longer life cycle when it comes to releasing singles. Realistically, this is probably the last bit of mileage that Metallica will get out of their most celebrated album in several years.

If “Halo On Fire” is the last hurrah off of Hardwired, it is a hell of a way to close out the cycle. Many would probably argue, but in my opinion, they saved the best for last. It’s not that the song takes you back in time to the band’s thrash heyday the way that some of the other songs do, but it does have some of the same elements that made “Fade To Black” an all-time classic and fan favorite. Like some of their other epic pieces, “Halo On Fire” has multiple parts, but they blend together smoothly rather than giving you whiplash as they slam on the breaks and change direction.

Metallica is predominantly an influential band, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t write songs that seem to pay homage to other artists. In the beginning of the song, the dual guitar assault that transitions to a slower, moody tempo is a similar approach that Judas Priest took on “Victim Of Changes.” To be fair, “Halo On Fire” – while lengthy – is more accessible to the average listener than the Priest classic. The hook and the chorus fall more in the realm of radio-friendly songs.

About halfway through the song, there is a nice guitar riff transition that acts as a bridge to the second half of the song where some unlikely influences can be heard. At times, you’ll be reminded of Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak.” On one small guitar picking part – Queensryche’s “Anybody Listening.” Shades of a mixture between The Guess Who’s “No Time” and John Cougar Mellancamp’s “I Need A Lover” shine through in the melodic guitar parts that seem to sing a vocal melody. The jamming at the end of the song sounds like the lovechild of Metallica and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird.”

Metallica has shown different sides of themselves throughout their illustrious career, but it’s hard to think of a song that shows more diversity than “Halo On Fire.” It’s definitely my favorite song off of the band’s latest album, and in due time, I can see it becoming one of my favorites in their entire catalog.

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

Mentioned as a possibility last week, Bad Wolves reversed their slight downtrend with moderate uptick in spins this week. Shinedown suffered a modest decline, but remained firmly in the #1 position. Bad Wolves has the edge right now to be the next #1, but Godsmack is hot on their heels, and could provide stiff competition in the coming weeks. If Shinedown has another modest decline, they could hold on to the #1 position for another week. However, if they start to drop with momentum, either of the aforementioned artists has the potential to rise to the top.

HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)

Each week, we will share the songs that we think should be added to rotations, alongside the songs that we feel should be dropped from rotations, either because they are a bad fit for the format, or because they have run their course and it’s time for a new single from the artist.

SPIN IT…

METALLICA – “Halo On Fire”

SUNFLOWER DEAD – “Victim”

EVE TO ADAM – “No Easy Way Out”

FIGHT THE FURY – “My Demons”

MONSTER TRUCK – “Denim Danger”

SHVPES – “Afterlife”

WITHIN TEMPTATION (f. JACOBY SHADDIX) – “The Reckoning”

DEVOUR THE DAY – “Faithless”

DROP IT…

Twenty One Pilots – “Jumpsuit”

Twenty One Pilots – “My Blood”

Imagine Dragons – “Natural”

Glorious Sons – “S.O.S.”

Pretty Vicious – Move”

Basement – “Disconnect”

Muse – “Pressure”

Fever 333 – “Made An America”

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

Beartooth now has a Top 10 single on virtually the same airplay that was good for #12 the week before…

No changes in the composition of the Top 20 nor the Top 30, only changes in the order of the songs…

The latest Greta Van Fleet single is the only new member in the Top 40 this week…

Light The Torch is the highlight of the debuting songs that fill out the bottom two spots of this published chart.

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